Ghost Quotes
1154 quotes by 732 authors
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Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a…
— Jodi Picoult
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Before Luce could reply, a skinny, dark haired girl appeared in from of her, wagging her long fingers in Luce's face. "Ooooooh," the girl taunted…
— Lauren Kate
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You had a package. It was torn, so I looked in.†She lifted one of a stack of firefighter calendars, with his own mug and…
— Jill Shalvis
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Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull,…
— Michael Cunningham
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I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It…
— Terry McMillan
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We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely…
— Daphne du Maurier
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Sorry, we've got ghosts.
— Deborah Harkness
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People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.
— Neil Gaiman
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I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I’ve seen a few.
— Lilith Saintcrow
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For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs…
— Ayn Rand
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Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the…
— Charles Dickens
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And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt…
— Cassandra Clare
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Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and…
— Charles Dickens
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But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not…
— Patricia A. McKillip
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One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.
— Javier MarÃas
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Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the…
— Rick Yancey
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... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's…
— Charles de Lint
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Ashley tugged on his sleeve. "You're scaring me Walter." "Sorry I guess talking about ghosts is-" "It's not that," she interrupted shaking her head. "You're…
— Bryan Davis
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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
— Ann Brashares
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I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.
— Jodi Picoult
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